Stove-pipe damper



M. HICKS.

Stovepipe Damper.

No. 55,10L Fatented May 29, 1866.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

MILAN HICKS, OF RICHMOND, ILLINOIS.

STOVE-PIPE DAM PER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,101, dated May 29, 1866.

' tive view Fig. 3, a sectional view taken in a horizontal line through I of Fig. 2.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a strip of band-iron three-fourths otan inch wide, bent into a circle of five, six, and seven inches in diameter, to fit the size of stove-pipe, and fastened as shown at I in the accompanying drawings. On the inside of said circle, and opposite to each other, are riveted two concave plates of sheet iron, so formed as to fit the pipe, as shown at A and A in the accompanying drawings.

B and B, as shown in the drawings, are flat platos of sheet-iron of larger size than A, which are fasteued to said band 1 in position par-alle] with its axis. Also, in these plates are cut four round holes one and one fourth inch in diameter, or their equivalent. Across the center of said band is another plate parallel to B and B, but of larger size. The holes through it are so arranged they will not come opposite B and B, as shown at O in the'accompanying drawings.

J is the handle-a piece ofoneiourth-inch rod of iron running across the plate C and fastened to it. This forms the shaft or axis which is let into the stove-pipe, and upon which the damper revolves.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The band I,concave plates A A, perforated platos B, B, and C, constructed and arranged substantially iu the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.

- MILAN HICKS. Witnesses:

O. R. C OUCH, BENNETT HIOKS. 

